Lot 216
Churchill, Sir Winston Spencer. Lord Randolph Churchill, second edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, inscribed 'From Winston S. Churchill 14 May 1912' on front free-endpaper, portrait frontispiece, half-title, plates, slight spotting, contemporary half morocco by Birdsall, top edge gilt, 8vo, London: Macmillan & Co., 1907
Loosely inserted is a note to F. Erskine Paton Esq., 'May 14th 1912 Dear Sir, Mr Churchill asks me to say that he hopes you will accept the accompanying copy of his life of Lord Randolph Churchill. The old Marlborough gun which you were so kind as to send him has been put up in his room at this office, where it looks very well...' 1p. folded, in envelope.